Alison Balsom on trumpet with Konzerthausorchester Berlin, conducted by Xian Zhang. From a documentary on Alison Balsom produced in 2009

Xian Zhang dirige l'Orchestra Verdi

张弦在2002年马泽尔/韦拉国际指挥比赛中获一等奖，现任纽约爱乐乐团的替补指挥和辛辛纳提大学音乐学院的音乐会管弦乐团的音乐指导。2000年夏季，她在意大利卢卡歌剧院任卢卡音乐节管弦乐团的音乐总监， 1997-1998年间任中央音乐学院的助教。

　　张弦最近指挥的演出有：与纽约爱乐乐团的首演音乐会、与（纽约）圣卢克管弦乐团和与（新西兰）奥克兰爱乐乐团的演出，以及与意大利布塞托的朱塞佩·威尔第剧院演出《唐璜》，与辛辛纳提歌剧院演出《茶花女》。下一步的演出计划有：与纽约爱乐乐团签约的2005年1月和5月的音乐会，与辛辛纳提歌剧院续约指挥《唐璜》。还有将于2005年5月与伦敦交响乐团首演。

　　出生于中国丹东市，张弦从四岁开始学钢琴，11岁时进入中央音乐学院附中，主修钢琴。她在指挥方面的卓越天赋使音乐学院的教授信服，进入中央音乐学院指挥系。张弦先后在该学院获得学士和硕士学位， 1998年 她赴美在辛辛纳提音乐学院攻读博士学位之前，在该学院的指挥系任教一年。

　　张弦的指挥教师包括郑小瑛、吴灵芬和俞峰。自她赢得马泽尔/韦拉国际指挥比赛以来，张弦一直在洛林·马泽尔大师的指导下工作。在20岁时，张弦在北京中央音乐学院首演，指挥中央歌剧院管弦乐团演出莫扎特的《费加罗的婚礼》。同年还指挥中国歌剧舞剧院演出中国歌剧《白毛女》。

　　Xian Zhang

　　Xian Zhang won first prize in the Maazel/Vilar Conductors’ Competition in New York in 2002. Xian Zhang is currently serving as a cover conductor of the New York Philharmonic and music director of the concert Orchestra at the College-Conservatory of Music of ht e University of Cincinnati, She has also been Music Director of Lucca Festival Orchestra at the Opera Theatre of Lucca (Italy) during the summer of 2000 and Assistant Professor at the Central Conservatory of Music 1997-1998.

　　Ms. Zhang’s most recent conducting appearances include her debut concerts with the New York Philharmonic and performances with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s (New York) and the Auckland Philharmonia (New Zealand), don Giovanni at Teatro Giuseppe Verdi in Busseto (Italy), and La Traviata with the Cincinnati Opera. Upcoming appearances include subscription concerts with the New York Philharmonic in January and May of 2005, a re-engagement with the Cincinnati Opera conducting Don Giovanni. Ms. Zhang will make her debut with the London Symphony Orchestra in May of 2005.

　　Born in Dandong, China, Xian Zhang started playing piano since four. At the age of eleven, she entered the High School Affiliate of the Central Conservatory of Music majoring in piano. Her superior talent for conducting convinced the faculty to admit her to the conducting department at the Central conservatory of Music. She subsequently received both the Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from that conservatory and served one year on the conducting faculty before coming to the United States in 1998 to pursue her doctoral study at the College-conservatory of Music in Cincinnati. Ms. Zhang’s conducting teachers include Zheng Xiaoying, Wu Lingfen and Yu Feng. Since winning the Maazel / Vi.ar Conductor’s Competition, she has been working under the tutelage of maestro Lorin Maazel. At the age of Twenty, Xian Zhang made her conducting debut directing performances of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro with the Central Opera House Orchestra at the Central Conservatory in Beijing. She also conducted performances of Chinese opera, The White-Hair Lady, with the China Opera House in the same year.

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